Saturday, June 18, 2022

On "Land Acknowledgements" Being the New Woke Ritual

The latest college to fall prey to this foolishness is Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, where prior to every big event on campus they first have to pay tribute to the Native Americans who lived on the land prior to the arrival of whites from Europe. The big problem of course is that the Native Americans were far from a monolith and actually pushed each other off of land well before the arrival of European settlers and explorers and so I ask, once we figure out which tribe that Europeans pushed off wouldn't it then be reasonable to request a similar level of contrition to honor THEIR predecessors? It's a fair question, no?

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